Legal Opinion
Young v. City of Worcester
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided March 14, 1956PublishedCited by 8 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtWhittemore, J.
This is a taxpayers’ petition to require the city of Worcester to provide the amount of a deficiency in its appropriation for schools for the year 1954 and an additional sum equal to twenty-five per cent of the deficiency, all as provided by G. L. (Ter. Ed.) c. 71, § 34, as appearing in St. 1939, c. 294. The specification of the petition is that the amount requested by the school committee by way of salary of the superintendent of schools was $15,000 and the city appropriated only $12,000. The case was heard on a statement of agreed facts. A final decree was entered dismissing the petition.…
2Cases cited11 opinions
- Leonard v. School Committee of the City of SpringfieldMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1922
- Decatur v. Auditor of PeabodyMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1925
- Ring v. City of WoburnMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1942
- Davis v. School CommitteeMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1940
- Callahan v. City of WoburnMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1940
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3Cited by8 opinions
- Lynch v. City of Fall RiverMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1958
- Graves v. Town of FairhavenMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1959
- Day v. City of NewtonMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1961
- Illig v. Town of PlymouthMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1958
- Superintendent of Schools v. Mayor of LeominsterMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1982
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